My desktop PC has never had an issue whether accessing the share with Windows7, Linux Mint 11, openSUSE 11.4, Debian 6...neither has the netbook I'm running Vector on when I've used Crunchbang, Puppy or AntiX...so this is clearly a client side issue with my set up of Vector.

Yeah, I used slapt-get and I noticed some anomalous behaviour from mount.cifs. The mount.smbfs file is there and I can open it and scroll to the bottom: line 115 tries to

Code:

exec /sbin/mount.cifs

When I tried to open mount.cifs that appears in the directory listing Leafpad tells me the file doesn't exist. Not put off yet I tried to open the file with vi...but I got the same result and that is off putting.

I also tried entering the credentials directly into fstab. Finally I have a drive mapped! Problem is with the credentials file then, as well as using temporary mounts...progress anyway. That will do for me, I have a network share mapped.